Michael Graves

Michael Graves (born 1950) is an American Republican Party politician who ran for Governor of New York in the 2008 New York State gubernatorial elections.

Biography
Graves was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and entered politics after being a lawyer. Graves was a conservative of the Republican Party and was known to be corrupt, charged with a criminal sexual act: minor in 1999 and in 2003 gained a campaign finance law violation charge. Also, he was charged with sexually harassing employees' children and spent $400,000 of senatorial campaign funds on buying a vacation house in the Philippines.

In 2008, Graves ran in the New York State Gubernatorial Elections, representing the Republican Party against Democrat John Hunter. He had a radio campaign of insults and humiliating comments, trying to dissuade voters from voting for Hunter in the elections.